Matakishi's Tea House

Does any one else (pretend) that they work to a budget or like me,(pretend) to work a scale ??.

I seem to set myself a target then just spend what i get,for me i suppose its easy with no family.Its just me,no wife/children/household bills.

What happens with me is i say i am staying with one scale/budget,then i spend everything on say GZG figures/FOW figures (as i did this week) and anything else i want/see.I know this is a bad thing,in many ways.

So i just wondered what/how some of you go on with the temptations of lead/plastic.

6mm tony:)

Ehm, tough question for a married man... We stick to one scale (1/72 or 1/76) and mostly to plastic; using second hand stuff acquired from that famous auction site often helps. Also, as we mainly do modern stuff, cheap diecast vehicles can be used to good effect for technicals.

Of course, it helps if SWMBO is involved in the hobby as well - usually, when someone gets something new and powerful for the table, it's like "what, I don't get these as well???". In that situation, "well, no, but I can get you stuff that's able to counter these" is always the better answer than "honey, no, see, white settler militias usually don't operate Apache attack helos, not even nowadays."...

ha ha ha ha...thats brilliant !!

What's a budget? I'm married with kids so all I can do is lay a trail of hints towards a birthday or Xmas and hope.

Another method I have discovered lately is to get my 10 year old boy hooked on Warhammer 40K. Apparently our household budget does stretch to buying him big boxed sets so he takes the marines and I get the orks

Honi soit qui mal y pense and all that

Craig.

Oh i see Craig,so you buy what "you" want then split the difference ha ha ha...must remmeber that one ha ha ha..

I will use it on my nephew chris ha ha ha..

Cheers tony:)

Sorry! This is turning into an essay.

Ha ha, me I have no concept of budget etc. every bloody time I promise myself I won't buy anymore miniatures, until the last project is finished, but the problem is in my subsequent surfing/reading I have found another project, and I just know this is the one, that I'm going to complete, I plan it down to every detail, the baseboard, everything! so the required purchases are made, these days I am aware of these faults so most projects only have have a maximum of 20 figures for a starter force. Consequently I have a painting table full of unfinished projects, along with many others in boxes, and a few nicely painted figures that are completely incompatible.

Current projects on my table are:

Atomic Cafe 57 9 Greasers, 1 Brute, 9 US Army, 1 MIB and 1 US Jeep. About 2/3rd finished. Also have on order 4 Plasticville models for baseboard.

SLA Industries Only three figures at moment, 1 Privateer to be painted as is as a Brainwaster, and 2 Infinity miniatures to be converted and sculpted upon to be Halloweeen Jack & Drug Nun " characters from the game.

Post Apocalypse 8 figures with all faces and hair painted and Black lining done. I figure finished, Copplestone kid in bunny suit

Incursion Complete set of figures all undercoated, all the APE suits have the main armour painted and all Black lining done.

Smog 1888 5 Figures undercoated.

SAS/French Resistance Force 2x 10 man Resistance Squads, 5 man SAS Command Squad, 2 man Demolition Squad, 3 man SAS HMG Squad, 2x SAS Jeeps, Citroen 15cv with converted crew. Painted Lysander Plane and a scratchbuilt Command Post based on the 1/72nd Airfix Kit.

If there was a Poll on this site I should ask everyone what I should finish off next!!!

fixed your photo Simon

And, since you asked, I've added a poll to the bottom of your page where people can vote...

Simon's Painting Poll

Budget? Scale? Nope, I just have a mound of unpainted figures in various scales. Pretty much all sci-fi though,so I 'almost' stick to a genre

HA, I just love that bunny suit.

A budget? Of course there is a small budget involved wsith me. I'm married and a father of 3. Still... you have one Elysium (or someone else, mind) showing you something like that bunny-kid and there goes the budget. *g*

As for scale.... 6,15,20 and 28/30mm mostly. Though I have lately bought packs of 1/1200 aeronefs and such so I guess the scale is through the wind too ;-)

I admire those people though who can stick to their numbers and get to color their unpainted lead before buying something new. I know I can't do that.

I have yet to get back to 3D models, and most of my focus is on roleplaying games, so I'm using cheap paper minis and terrain (okay, ripped pieces of construction paper), so I'm on the cheap end of the scale.  I have a wife and three kids and all the pertaining bills that go along, plus I have no room .

That said, in a month I am moving into  house with much more room than my apartment, and I am making friends with some guys who play a lot of 40K, so I can definitely see a shift coming, but the budget will never be great, if it ever exists at all.  So I think the scale will depend on what I may find at the second hand stores and so forth.  For now a few paper minis out there are free, and they are what I use.

I unfortunately suffer from too many ideas not enough follow through. I try to work on the cheap all the time but it's mostly the commitment that I falter on. Still, most of my terrain is built from the Dollar Store and whatever materials I can find on sale at the local craft shop. My latest work in Chinese fantasy was a cheap bit of work using bamboo placemats to model bamboo groves. I went the easy route using railroad foliage but hell, the whole table set up is more of a movie set than historically accurate anyways.

I think like you Twogunbob,i have always seen what i do as an extension of my on-line gaming and the movies i see.Not to be historically accurate,theres no many at that thats why i like sci-fi and horror so much,it allows me to do as i want.

Also i suffer from to many ideas and to little time.

Cheers all 6mm